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 * //NARRATIVE WRITING //**

Objectives
toc In this unit, students read, discuss, and analyze literary texts, focusing on the authors’ choices in developing and relating textual elements such as character development, point of view, and central ideas while also considering how a text’s structure conveys meaning and creates aesthetic impact. Additionally, students learn and practice narrative writing techniques as they examine the techniques of the authors whose stories students analyze in the module. The texts in this unit develop complex characters who demonstrate conflicts between social conventions and the human psyche. The texts take up the ideas of freedom and boundaries, bravery and cowardice, sense of self and societal expectations. Students discuss the narrative writing techniques in W.11-12.3.a-e. Using the module texts as exemplars of narrative writing, students practice narrative writing techniques to produce a variety of text-based narrative writing. Narrative writing prompts draw inspiration from the texts, but allow for less structured narrative writing practice. Alternately, or in addition, students may also use the narrative writing skills they develop in relation to W.11-12.3.a-e as the basis for drafting a college essay. Students engage in every aspect of the writing process, from brainstorming, prewriting, drafting, and revising, to peer review, editing, and ultimately, publishing, as they craft final narrative writing pieces in the Performance Assessment.

Common Core Standards
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed). Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple RL.11-12.6 Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement). meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences. a. Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation and its significance, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events. b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. c. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole and build toward a particular tone and outcome (e.g., a sense of mystery, suspense, growth, or resolution). d. Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters. e. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.
 * CCS Standards: Reading—Literature. RL.11-12.2 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">CCS Standards: Reading—Literature RL.11-12.3 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">CCS Standards: Reading—Literature RL.11-12.4 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">CCS Standards: Reading—Literature .RL.11-12.6 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">CCS Standards: Writing W.11-12.3.a-e **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Texts

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Group 1: The Emptiness of Conventional Expectations **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Central Idea: the effects of the restricted role of women throughout history and the perils of psychiatric medicine. T

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Sylvia Plath’s //The Bell Jar// (Novel)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Short Story)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“Lamb to the Slaughter” Roald Dahl (Short Story)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Group 2: The Futile Search for Innocence **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Central Idea: alienation as a form of self-protection and coping with the phoniness of the adult world.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">J.D.Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” (short story)

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Catcher in the Rye //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">by J.D. Salinger

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“I am a Rock” by Simon and Garfunkel (Lyrics used as a poem)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Group 3: Foreignness and ‘The Other’ **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Central Idea: identity, whiteness as the standard of beauty, the power of stories.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">//The Bluest Eye// by Toni Morrison (novel)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">//The Namesake// by Jhumpa Lahiri (novel)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">//The book of Unknown Americans// by Cristina Henriquez (novel)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Performance Assessment
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Over the course of this unit, you have read and analyzed (enter your desired combination of texts).You have also studied effective narrative writing techniques, including crafting engaging introductions, applying narrative techniques to develop characters and events, developing a sequence of events that demonstrate a coherent narrative whole, revising for precise/sensory language, and crafting conclusions that effectively follow from the narrative provided. For this assessment, craft a 1–3 page narrative writing piece in response to the following prompt:

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Consider focusing the narrative writing instruction on personal narrative to prepare students for the Common Application essay prompts. Students may choose from any of the 2014–2015 Common Application essay prompts: //


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;">Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;">Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;">Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;">Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;">Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.

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